The UK?s 'Message To Moscow?

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at what Defence Secretary John Healey has called the UK?s ?message to Moscow? as he announces investment in weapons and factories to make them.

Laura, Paddy and Henry also talk about how much it?s going to cost, whether it?s affordable, and whether NATO thinks it?s enough.

They also talk about Robert Jenrick, after a week of the justice secretary making headlines.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	Paddy, I've got a present for you.
0:06.3	Yep.
0:07.6	Oh, a clapboard.
0:09.3	It's a clapper board.
0:10.1	If you're listening, not watching, for some reason, I have no idea.
0:13.6	We have a newscast clapboard with us today.
0:15.5	Maybe they're just trying to, oh, because it's like giving me a toy to play with, so I'll shut up.
0:19.2	Maybe that's it. After our Bond chat yesterday, who do we think would be the next Bond, Henry?
0:25.8	Well, isn't the point that it's going to take years and years and years? It's going to be someone
0:28.5	we haven't even heard of yet. Well, Jack Loudon. I'm going to say Jack Loudon because he was on
0:33.8	the show not long ago and we asked him about it and he said, ah, maybe I'll be the first ginger bond.
0:40.2	Yeah.
0:40.6	But there does seem to be a bit of intrigue
0:42.9	because partly because Amazon's bought the franchise, right?
0:45.0	So they have to work out what it's going to be
0:47.1	about who it's going to be.
0:48.3	Is it now going to be a big American corporate monolith?
0:51.1	Ginger Bond sounds like a biscuit.
0:53.0	Does it?
0:54.6	Where you'd go, snap, have it with a cup of tea.
0:58.0	So we were talking about the next bomb
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